#he'd follow Slash and only hesitate long enough to see what Pluto was going to do

[moonfurthetemmie]

ok here they are

btw these three are only slightly more responsible than their original iterations and only by pure necessity. their kingdom/queendom is teetering on the edge of collapse. this is the price they paid for making sure delusion doesn't become king.

also i say 'these three' but honestly mostly just byte. pluto grew up with people trying to tell him how to be a prince so he's got backstory reasons for being less of a fool already, even before the coup. Slash is just good at pretending. which mostly means not saying any of her ideas when anyone else besides Byte and Pluto is around.

Fortunately she's very good at her job without ever saying a word. Big buff scary guard woman covered in scars glaring at you is more than enough to keep most people from trying to fuck with her, or the queen, or the queen's personal advisor 96% of the time

The other 6% comes from

Pluto gleefully helping overthrow Delusion,

The Queen has this crazy look in her eyes most of the time

There's been rumors for ages about the prince and a couple of commoner friends lurking in dark alleys not long before a corpse is discovered there.

Byte (Combat gear):

Bladed shield for defense AND stabbing

wough rock magic

she likes fighting :)

not as much as slash does, admittedly. or even pluto. but she is having so much fun

btw she has a concealed dagger with her formal outfit

every time i have to make some kinda error alt i have to once again face the fact that the og (and by extension, ds and h!ds and every other iteration EXCEPT for some reason Koroit) is just black + primary colors. it starts to hurt my brain after a while

Slash

everyone raise your hand if you're surprised she decided her familiar should be a dragon (no hands go up). she's telling it how to break into the treasury of the neighboring kingdom because the three of them forgot Phrikeh did not in fact have bottomless coffers

barely contained bloodlust. she looks like she's thinking of the most grisly way to kill you because she is. she wants you dead just so she can have fun killing you. it's not personal though don't worry <33

She is the most excited if the three of them ever have to take the field of battle. So far no one has survived a fight with her unless she wanted them to. That formal combat training has done her good. very unfortunate for literally everyone else though

she complains about the armor being uncomfortable but doesn't do anything about it. because it scares the shit out of people when she so much as narrows her eyes in it, and she thinks it's hilarious.

nothing else sorry. just Her

Pluto

they added a new scythe

He was "allowed" to keep pretty much all his stuff except the stuff that was specifically for the royalty. but that's pretty much just formal prince-y clothes and his crown, so he doesn't care. which is good because Queen Byte doesn't even know where the servants took that stuff. also when I say "allowed" I mean "Byte wasn't going to take all his shit just because he wasn't prince anymore."

The circlet he wears now is specifically because he's the queen's advisor. His princely crown was much fancier. he likes this one better it's not so annoying to wear

as the former prince, he knows a lot about Phrikeh's relations with other kingdoms. As Queen Byte's advisor, he has to tell her what he knows. this is the first time she or Slash have heard him talk about any other kingdom and they're kinda having fun listening to him bitch about the stuffy assholes he's had to deal with. he doesn't even like their allies. goddamn. (He admits that from a strategical standpoint, they're very good allies. he just hates them, like, personally.)

He uses water magic, rather than darkness magic. because I thought it'd be funny. also because i'm allergic to giving any two idiots from the same source the same type of magic and i think it'd be even funnier if hunter used darkness magic, given his position :)

ok so here's. ehre's the thing

there's a very funky rtoyalty au that me and wheeze have that's just called 'funky magic royalty au' where a whole bunch of characters are in weird places, despite it not being a swap or shift or switch au of any kind. but anyway i just realized i could add H!DS to it. so, in the spirit of the rest of the crack AU, i decided byte could be queen. and hohm y god she's so

don't worry about the spider that's just her familiar it's fine it's totally fine i don't know what you're worried about cmon it's just a little guy it's not like it's gonna earthbend you into the sun (probably)

i also forgot that gouge has a pet spider. so i'm going to now have to give gouge a larger spider of a different element

im working on the short essay of why this thing is a convoluted mess (affectionate), and maybe i'll drag the basics of the magic system out too. but right now i'm just being borderline incoherent and very gay and all of my attention is trained on the pretrty lady with none to spare for making sense